On a billboard in Tel Aviv, President Donald Trump is compared to Cyrus the Great. The allusion is not perfect, but it is apt: a powerful non-Jewish ruler has moved the world on behalf of the people of Israel.

Back in the days of Cyrus the Great, that meant freeing the Jews from Babylonian captivity, allowing them to return and rebuild the temple. In Trump’s day, it means moving the world to make Israel more secure, garnering the release of the final 20 living hostages.

Without Trump and his unique abilities as a negotiator, it’s hard to see how that would have happened. Trump absolutely deserves praise, and the nations represented at the Sharm el-Sheikh meeting after the hostage release, especially Qatar and Turkey, also played pivotal roles. But without Trump, that coordinated effort w

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